The Impact of Population Aging on Digital Economy: A Perspective on Market Competition

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10.2991/978-2-38476-611-6_55How to use a DOI?

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Population Aging; Digital Economy; Market Competition; Mediating Effect

Abstract

Population aging and digital economic development are two major issues facing the contemporary transformation of China’s economy and society. Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2022, this paper starts from the perspective of market competition and uses the mediation effect model to empirically test the impact of population aging on digital economic development and its mechanism. The research results show that population aging has a significant positive promoting effect on digital economic development; market competition plays a mediating role in the process of population aging influencing the development of the digital economy, and population aging indirectly promotes the development of the digital economy by alleviating the degree of market competition; the impact of population aging on the development of the digital economy is significantly positive in the eastern and central regions, but there is a significant inhibitory effect in the northeastern region. Therefore, in order to promote the high-quality development of the digital economy, the government should take a series of measures to fully leverage the impelling effect of population aging, continuously optimize the market competition environment, and implement differentiated regional development strategies for different regions.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zishan Jiang
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/07
TI  - The Impact of Population Aging on Digital Economy: A Perspective on Market Competition
BT  - Proceedings of the 2026 12th International Conference on Digital Humanities and Frontiers in Social Sciences (DHFSS 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 496
EP  - 503
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-611-6_55
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-611-6_55
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